Will Pervert State University, former known as Pennsylvania State University, bare the mess or continue the cover-up, from WHEC-TV:
An internal investigation into whether football coach Joe Paterno and other Penn State officials helped cover up reports that Jerry Sandusky was molesting children in the school’s locker rooms will be released Thursday, officials said Tuesday.
The report, commissioned by school trustees following the former assistant football coach’s arrest last year, is expected to reveal how the university treated Sandusky after fielding complaints about his encounters with young boys in 1998 and 2001. It is also expected to cast additional light on how Paterno exerted control over the football program while Sandusky worked under him and after Sandusky retired from coaching.
Jerry Sandusky preyed on young boys for years and PSU treated Sandusky like he was royalty.
Addendum I: How deep? Very deep, from WHEC-TV:
Penn State’s investigation into the Jerry Sandusky scandal concludes that Hall of Fame coach Joe Paterno and other senior officials “concealed critical facts relating to Sandusky’s child abuse” because they were worried about bad publicity.
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The report says president Graham Spanier, football coach Joe Paterno, athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz “failed to protect against a child sexual predator harming children for over a decade.”
I now await an investigation of the State College police and law enforcement.
Addendum II: Reax from Doug Mataconis, Outside the Beltwey:
hat the report makes clear is that Paterno, and the other officials at Penn State, acted in a manner that was designed more to protect the football program and the reputation of Paterno, and to treat Sandusky “humanely,” than it was to look out for the children. More importantly, its clear that a child predator was allowed to freely roam the halls of the Penn State athletic department, to use his access to the football program to groom his victims, and to use university facilities to abuse his victims. Indeed, the power of the football program was so great that it prevented people only tangentially related to it from coming forward to report what they saw.
I wonder who much of the PSU and Second Mile Endowments will survive after the the round of civil trials?
